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Improving .ANIM playback speed? Ideas?
« on: June 23, 2007, 06:26:34 AM »
Hello All,
   I was wondering if anyone had some ideas to improve playback speed of animations on an AGA Amiga. I have been making animations using Scenery Animator, Vista Pro, and some little programs from Aminet, then converting them to a DCTV Animation....but in most cases the animation plays very slowly, perhaps a just a few frames per second for the most complex ANIM's.  I tried converting the Anim's to ANIM7, which helps a bit....
 Short of getting a busboard and a PAR card, anyone have ideas to improve playback speed?
My Amiga's specs:
A1200 Power Tower, OS3.9 w/BB 1 and 2, '060/50MHz, 1230 SCSI module, 128MB, 8.5GB HD

Many Thanks,
 
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Marc Frick
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A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
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Re: Improving .ANIM playback speed? Ideas?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2007, 07:19:03 AM »
Thanks everyone, Well, I'll try to at least cut down my overscan...
As for what kinds of ANIMs, just Scenery Animator fly-throughs of the Grand Canyon (totally un-original, I know) some messing around with Vista Pro, and ImageFX. I wonder if I am just trying to push my miggy to far.... example: 300-frame DCTV ANIM's, full overscan.... I tried a 600-frame ANIM once, didn't have the patience to let it go through.....

I will check that link for ViewTek out, LaserBack... I have Dopus set up to use it for image files, not 100% sure if I am using it for Anim's.... also, maybe that link is a newer version....
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Marc Frick
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A1200T / \'060, 256MB, CD-R, OS3.9
A4000 w/ WarpEngine / 82MB , OS3.1
A4000 16MB, OS 3.9
A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
A1200 (stock)

CD32 :)

...And a very sick 4000T
 

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Re: Improving .ANIM playback speed? Ideas?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2007, 11:55:34 PM »
Thanks everyone for the advice, I did find out one thing... Being lazy I often just view ANIM's with DOpus....its' built-in ANIM player is much of the problem. Using ViewTek results in much smoother playback for all but one animation.

@AmigaDave: I'll try to PM you the .Anim that bogs down. It's weird though, only a few ANIMs now seem sluggish, I wonder if I did encode ALL of my .ANIM's as ANIM7....

Anyway, thanks again for all the help...
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Marc Frick
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A1200T / \'060, 256MB, CD-R, OS3.9
A4000 w/ WarpEngine / 82MB , OS3.1
A4000 16MB, OS 3.9
A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
A1200 (stock)

CD32 :)

...And a very sick 4000T